5 devotion to my own intellectual growth - lysistrata

Alex Boswell 12/5/2012 Category: Inquiry and Intellectual Growth Devotion to My Own Intellectual Growth and Providing Meaningful Responses to Student Work This document below is a graded essay on Lysistrata, an ancient Greek play, for a course titled Women in Literature. The essay also provides comments from my professor. It serves as an example of how my own essay writing continues to develop, and as evidence of my work as a scholar of literature. The comments that my professor wrote on my paper are both encouraging and critical in a constructive manner. This is an example of one kind of mentorship that I expect to use as a model for when I am grading and critiquing the work of students. I believe that students deserve more than just a grade on their work. They deserve unique and meaningful responses that can help guide them to the next level of their intellectual growth. In addition, this document serves as an example of my engagement with literature. Lysistrata could be an interesting text for high school students because it can be used to talk about war and peace, marginalized voices, gender, the importance of sexual consent, and how issues of the past can persist in the present day. Lysistrata also contains complex symbols, and other literary elements, that contribute to the richness of the text and interesting literary analyses. I commit to having carefully developed and meaningful responses to the work of each student. Along with using my professor’s feedback on my paper as a model for responding to students, I think more structure could be added to the feedback with the use of a rubric. A rubric could help students to more clearly see what skills they are great at and which ones would benefit from extra attention. I also commit to my own intellectual growth, to being fully engaged in the texts that I teach, and able to provide an informed, complex, and interesting learning environment. As a teacher, I am also a continuous learner finding new texts and materials that can be used in the classroom, while also revisiting texts and materials that I have studied in the past.

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Alex Boswell12/5/2012Category: Inquiry and Intellectual Growth

Devotion to My Own Intellectual Growth and Providing Meaningful Responses to Student Work

This document below is a graded essay on Lysistrata, an ancient Greek play, for a course titledWomen in Literature. The essay also provides comments from my professor. It serves as an example of howmy own essay writing continues to develop, and as evidence of my work as a scholar of literature.

The comments that my professor wrote on my paper are both encouraging and critical in a constructivemanner. This is an example of one kind of mentorship that I expect to use as a model for when I am gradingand critiquing the work of students. I believe that students deserve more than just a grade on their work. Theydeserve unique and meaningful responses that can help guide them to the next level of their intellectual growth.

In addition, this document serves as an example of my engagement with literature. Lysistrata could bean interesting text for high school students because it can be used to talk about war and peace, marginalizedvoices, gender, the importance of sexual consent, and how issues of the past can persist in the present day.Lysistrata also contains complex symbols, and other literary elements, that contribute to the richness of thetext and interesting literary analyses.

I commit to having carefully developed and meaningful responses to the work of each student. Alongwith using my professor’s feedback on my paper as a model for responding to students, I think more structurecould be added to the feedback with the use of a rubric. A rubric could help students to more clearly see whatskills they are great at and which ones would benefit from extra attention. I also commit to my own intellectualgrowth, to being fully engaged in the texts that I teach, and able to provide an informed, complex, andinteresting learning environment. As a teacher, I am also a continuous learner finding new texts and materialsthat can be used in the classroom, while also revisiting texts and materials that I have studied in the past.